Edward Aspen Brown

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Edward Espe Brown (born March 24, 1945 ) is an American Zen teacher and author.

Edward Brown has been practicing Zen since 1965, was a student of Suzuki Shunryū and was ordained a Sōtō- Zen priest by him in 1971 . In 1996 he received the Dharma transmission from Mel Weitsman . In addition to Zen and Zen cooking courses, he teaches yoga and Chi Gong , among others at the San Francisco Zen Center , in the Zen monastery Daihizan Fumonji in Eisenbuch, in the House of Silence in Dienten (district Puregg), in the "Felsentor" in Vitznau (Switzerland) and at the Scheibbs Buddhist Center . Brown became known to a wider audience in German-speaking countries through Doris Dörrie's 2007 documentary How to Cook Your Life .

childhood

Edward Brown's mother died when he was three years old. The father decided to put his sons Edward and Dwite in a monastery in San Anselmo , California instead of sending them to relatives in South Dakota . There he could visit her regularly. The father married four years later and the sons returned home.

In 1955, Dwite and Edward fled to Falls Church and visited their aunt Alice. Their homemade bread inspired Edward to bake himself. He called their bread fabulously delicious ( fabulously delicious ). In Doris Dörrie's film, he wonders why Americans eat this soft toast instead of high-quality homemade bread.

Brown learned to bake bread eleven years later from the chefs at Tassajara.

San Francisco

Edward Brown lived at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center . He wrote The Tassajara Bread Book in 1970 . It was reissued in 2003. 750,000 copies have been sold so far, and 3,000 copies are still sold annually today. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, Brown was the manager, cook, and Zen teacher at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center , Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and the San Francisco Zen Center .

He was initiated into Zen by Sojun Mel Weitsman. In 1971 he was ordained as a Zen priest by Shunryu Suzuki . He gave him the Dharma name Jusan Kainei ( Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea ). Ed Brown published Suzuki's book Not Always So in 2002 .

Edward Brown helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco . He and founding director Deborah Madison wrote the cookbook The Greens Cookbook together in 1987

Later years

Edward Brown led the Peaceful Sea Sangha in Fairfax , Marin County , California. He is part of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association . Brown teaches Zen and meditation. He also gives baking and cooking courses in Zen centers in the USA, Canada , Switzerland , Austria and Germany . Brown teaches that every dough is different, just as every day is different . He teaches that living and baking lead to the same realization, namely the development of attention and mindfulness.

Ed Brown is able to combine qigong and yoga . He always recommends initiating a life change by changing your handwriting.

"When you're cooking, you're not just cooking,
you're not just working on food
... you're also working on yourself,
you're working on other people.

When you cook, you not only
cook , you not only work on the food,
you also work on yourself
and on other people at the same time ! "

- Ed Brown

Fonts

Some of Brown's books that combine Zen Buddhism with cooking have also been translated into German:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.felsentor.ch
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Edward Aspen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Zen teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1945